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[yellowglasses]

Who: Chie Satonaka and everybody else ever

Location: The plaza

Time:  Evening

Status: Open~

 

 

There was a girl standing in the plaza examining her wet track jacket, making an annoyed grumble. This was just a great to wake up, wasn't it? She unzipped her jacket and fanned it out a bit to shake some of the water off of it, not that it really helped dry the rest of her, but at least if she didn't have that on Chie figured her body would dry quicker. After her jacket seemed to be less wet than before (although not by much), she tied it around her waist.

 

Securly tied, she looked up to see who would have dumped water on her, only realize she didn't even have the slightest idea where this was to begin with.

 

"W..where exactly am I? This isn't Inaba at all!"

 

How did she get here? Where even was here?! She appeared to be in some city that was underwater, from the look of things. The only conclusion Chie could come to was this was some strange world inside the television, but it didn't make sense to be back in here when the murders were all done and over with by now. Besides, there was no reason she'd wake up here alone, and drenched with water at that.

 

She took this moment to admire the dome above her and the plaza in general though, moving her wet bangs out of her eyes a tad bit. It looked so...different from the inside of the television, so real. There wasn't any dense fog in the air either obstructing her vision.  But at the same time it was a very drastic change from her usual country town scenery back in Inaba she was so used to.

This couldn't be inside of the television though, no. Chie was somewhere completely new and foreign to her. But why?

Snapping back to reality, the girl looked around the plaza. She decided reaching out to the nearest passerby would be the best thing to do, it was time to get some answers!

 

"Um, excuse me? Could you tell me where I'm at?"

Comments

[undie_boss]

"Huh?" Eikichi turned to look the girl. Well she looked normal, at least. Not an alien, not a Nazi, not a samurai or a ninja. Normal and probably his age.

"Vatheon," he replied with a shrug. "Kinda like a weird Atlantis."

[yellowglasses]

Chie didn't exactly pick the most normal looking person to stop for questioning, but beggars can't be choosers! Besides, if there had been anything she'd learned from getting to know her friend Kanji, it'd be that you couldn't exactly judge someone off their appearance so..

"Vatheon? I've never heard of it, but yeah it does sort of look like Atlantis." she murmured, looking back up briefly.

"Um..could you tell me how exactly I got here?" she let out a short yet embarrassed laugh due to how silly she must sound, "I don't really..well, know, exactly. I just sort of found myself here. Wet."

[undie_boss]

Eikichi was far from normal, wearing a modified school uniform and looking like a Visual Kei rockstar.

He shrugged and shook his head. "Beats me, babe. No one seems to know how you get here. I just got here myself."

[yellowglasses]

..Did he just call her 'babe'? That was a new one. She looked a tiny bit surprised at that but brushed it off.

"You too? Well...I'm sure if we looked into it we could find out something!" After all, Chie and her friends did just solve a murder case. If she and some others put their minds to it, this could be solved too! Or so she thought.

"Oh! Right, I'm Chie Satonaka! Nice to meet you.."

[undie_boss]

Yup, he sure did.

"Yeah, the locals don't seem to wanna talk about it," Eikichi shrugged again. He'd done plenty of investigating, as well, hunting down the Masked Circle and their assault on Sumaru. But that was too much work and seemed more like Maya's friend's thing.

"Eikichi Mishina. Same."

[yellowglasses]

"Don't want to talk about it, huh? I don't know about you, but that sure sounds suspicious to me." End one mystery and fall into another one. This was just wonderful...

"Alright, Eikichi. I'll remember it! So what have you actually managed to get out of the locals by the way? If you don't mind my asking of course, I just really would like to get as much information on this place as possible." she asked, grinning a bit.

He sure was strange looking, but hey, if Chie managed to find someone she could actually talk to in Vatheon that was great! She sure wished her friends from back home were here though..

[undie_boss]

Eikichi was pretty easy to talk to, if you didn't insult him or call him names. Then he'd kick the talker's ass. Literally.

Anyway. He shrugged and shook his head again. "Even with my masterful persuasion skills, I couldn't get a word outta them. They just smiled and didn't say a word. Really creepy."

[garbagecanned]

[It wasn't like he was expecting to see her again, after all. And the new arrivals were new arrivals - they were all as wet and confused as everyone else was.

So, in a way, he guessed he was becoming a little immune to it. Of course he did try to help when he could (and if he was feeling like it), so when he turned to face Chie, he wasn't expecting to see her there.]

Chie? Is that you??

[Even though that was a stupid question - how would he be able to mistake her?]

[yellowglasses]

[Chie had just randomly pointed at someone without thinking, she didn't think it would be someone she knew of all people!]

Y-Yosuke?! Yeah, it's me.
Where are we? How did we even get here?

[garbagecanned]

[Wow, okay then. He's happy to see her, though.]

Beats me. You just kind of show up here with no warning and explanation...

[He shudders at the thought of how he appeared here. It had been battle of the Coral, part one.]

But anyway, this place is called Vatheon.

[yellowglasses]

[Oh don't get her wrong, Chie's happy to see you too Yosuke. It's great to know she's not alone here!]

Vatheon? I've never heard of it..

..how long have we been here?

[She assumed they arrived at the same time, after all she did just see Yosuke before appearing here! So he couldn't have been here much longer than herself.]

[garbagecanned]

I've never heard of it either.

[He pauses. 'We'?]

You just got here. I've been here...for a while.

[He'd actually have to sit down and think about how long he's been here, though. It felt like forever, but...]

[yellowglasses]

[Was he trying to play some lame joke on her? She JUST saw him in Inaba, she wasn't going to fall for that easy.]

How dumb do I look, Yosuke? I mean..I know I might have looked pretty shaken up and lost a second ago, but that doesn't mean I've forgotten that I saw you back home right before being here.

You're going to have to try harder than that if you're seriously trying to trick me..

[by_my_will]

"You're in a place called Vatheon," Tieria responded, stopping when she addressed him.

"Vatheon! Vatheon!" The basketball sized round metal robot next to him bounced a little, flapping at her.

"New arrival?" She looked a bit wet.

[yellowglasses]

"Vatheon, huh? I've never heard of it."

Chie looked at the robot. It was kind of cute, actually.

"Yes, I am I guess. I mean I just sort of found myself here...I figured it'd be best to find out how that happened as soon as possible."

[by_my_will]

"Not many new arrivals have," Tieria said. "I had not either when I arrived. Same as you. Just found myself here, alone, and wet." The word 'wet' was met with a frown. He hadn't liked it, either. "I do not think anyone is truly aware of just how we arrive."

Haro just flapped at her, tilting a little to the side as it studied her back.

[yellowglasses]

"But how could not one person know? Doesn't that seem really..strange?"

[by_my_will]

"Those in charge know, but they have not shared anything." Tieria frowned. "Everyone arrives in the same way. Unaware that anything has happened, or how it has happened. And wet." He was still pretty unhappy with the word wet.

[yellowglasses]

"Those in charge?" Was there some sort of ruler over this place? That's how it sounded to her, anyway.

"Hmm...well, if nobody knows then I guess that trail for information is dead. Thank you though, it's nice to know a little more than what I did." Chie put her hands on her hips and sighed. This was quite the predicament wasn't it? But she couldn't help but wonder about the Haro a bit. If it had shown up like everyone else, wouldn't the water have ruined it?

"Is the robot yours? How did it arrive without getting wet?"

[tsundyne]

Oh...

[Yukari looks at the girl, wet and lost when she reaches out. Another newcomer! Though that doesn't exactly surprise her, since she's met plenty of them this month. Her eyes do widen a little, though; she could swear she's seen this girl once before, though she never did catch her name.

And now, she probably wouldn't remember her, either...

Heh, no point in bringing it up, then.]

Hey. Um, you're in Vatheon, right now...you're not hurt or anything, are you?

[Always good to make sure.]

[yellowglasses]

Vatheon? What is that?

[She'd never heard of the place, but..]

...No, I'm not hurt. Why do you ask?

[tsundyne]

No reason. Some people are, when they arrive, so I generally like to make sure...

[She gives her a glance over, and it looks like all is well at least; so she lets the point drop.]

...Anyway. It's...kind of an underwater city. If you can believe that.

[yellowglasses]

So it really is underwater? I mean, it looked like it was but I had my doubts..

[She wouldn't have been surprised if it was like being inside the television, not really being underwater but looking like it..but it was too realistic to be like that.]

Well, how do I get back to Inaba? If it's possible..considering we're underwater and all..

[tsundyne]

...Oh, you're from Inaba, too, huh?

[She might be Souji's friend, then. Guess she'll find out.]

Sorry, there isn't a way back anywhere, for right now. We're all stuck here; some of us longer than others.

[yellowglasses]

Wait-- Are you also from Inaba? I don't recall ever seeing you before. Considering it's a small town I figure I would have, especially since you look around my age...

[At hearing there is no way back, although, Chie just looked back up at the barrier.]

So we're trapped? We can't be...there has to be a way back someone hasn't thought of yet!